Feature Stories

December, 2020

At the end of this month, Dr Garth Manning retires as WONCA CEO. This collection of photos reflects on his term as CEO 2012-2020.

December, 2020

Dr John Wynn-Jones is well known in WONCA circles and immediate past chair of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice. During the COVID-19 crisis he has been writing a daily 'Rural Miscellany' email with poems and resource ideas to help and divert us in this difficult time. As a final item for 2020 we publish our hopes for 2021 - "Health and Wellbeing" - written by John in September.

November, 2020

Karen Flegg writes: ​As part of finishing up my role as WONCA editor by the end of the year, I wish to reflect on the great joy and wonderful times I have experienced in attending WONCA conferences over the last 10 years. My Editor's Picks: Photos of Individuals, and Editors Picks: Photos of Groups received wonderful feedback and of course these photos of my colleagues were taken at WONCA conferences. Below you will find various conference reports from past years' WONCA conferences.

October, 2020

Dr John Wynn-Jones is well known in WONCA circles and immediate past chair of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice. During the COVID-19 crisis he has been writing a daily 'Rural Miscellany' email with poems and resource ideas to help and divert us in this difficult time. This month we feature his item on "joy".

October, 2020

Dr David Ponka écrit. David est médecin de famille à Ottawa, au Canada, et directeur du Centre Besrour pour la médecine familiale mondiale du Collège des médecins de famille du Canada. Il a trois filles qui sont maintenant de retour à l’école après avoir obtenu un résultat négatif au test de dépistage de la COVID-19.

October, 2020

A perspective from Dr David Ponka. David is a family physician in Ottawa, Canada, and the Director of the Besrour Centre for Global Family Medicine at the College of Family Physicians of Canada. He has three daughters who are now back to school after testing negative for COVID-19. Une traduction en français est disponible.

October, 2020

WONCA is pleased to join as an inaugural member of Allies Improving PHC, an exciting alliance of global and local organizations committed to unlocking the full promise of primary health care (PHC) on the road to health for all.

September, 2020

In 1988, as a newly assigned coordinator of the Human Resources for Health program at WHO Headquarters in Geneva, I met the then WONCA President and liaison officer with WHO, Dr M K Rajakumar, from Malaysia. In his frank style, his first words were: “We often meet and talk at WHO but never do things together”! I boomeranged to him: “OK, let’s start doing things”!

September, 2020

Dr John Wynn-Jones is well known in WONCA circles and immediate past chair of the WONCA Working Party on Rural Practice. During the COVID-19 crisis he has been writing a daily 'Rural Miscellany' email with poems and resource ideas to help and divert us in this difficult time. This month we feature his item on "flowers".

August, 2020

Karen Flegg writes: This edition of WONCA News is the 100th edition that I have produced as WONCA editor. In May, it was my 10 year anniversary as the 9th WONCA editor having taken over from Dr Mark Rivo, at the 2010 World Council meeting held at the time of the world conference in Cancun, Mexico.